Alexander the Great and the opening of the world
Under the title Alexander the Great and the Opening of the World. Asian cultures in transition devoted the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums in Mannheim said on 3 October 2009 to 21 February 2010 the Macedonian king and commander Alexander the Great , a cultural-historical exhibition . It was under the patronage of the former Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and was visited by over 176,000 people.
Main topics
The exhibition followed the Alexanderzug as far as Central Asia and presented the cultural, economic and social upheavals it triggered using high-level original exhibits, including from the National Museum of Antiquity in Tajikistan and the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul . During excavations in what is now Uzbekistan , a clay bathtub came to light in the fortress Kurgansol, which proves the presence of the Greek cultural bearers in this region during the Alexander procession. Numerous comparative finds are known for them in the distant Mediterranean region. Together with a model of the fortress, a true-to-original copy of the bathtub made especially for the exhibition was one of the particularly impressive presentations of the exhibition. The marble portrait of Alexander the Great was borrowed from the Hessian castle Erbach (Odenwald) for the exhibition, which is considered the most important and best preserved version of the earliest official portrait type of Alexander the great. This bust from the 2nd century AD was personally handed over by the Hessian Minister of State Eva Kühne-Hörmann .
organization
The scientists from the Curt Engelhorn Foundation for the Reiss Engelhorn Museums and the Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin were responsible for the scientific preparation of the exhibition . The exhibition was under the overall scientific direction of Svend Hansen , Alfried Wieczorek and Michael Tellenbach and was funded by the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg . Nicola Crüsemann and Gunvor Lindström were in charge of the project, and Alexander Schubert was in charge of public relations . Cornelia Rebholz and Magdalena Pfeifenroth worked as press officers.
Supporting program
The exhibition was accompanied by an extensive supporting program. These included an exhibition in the Engelhorn fashion house entitled At the foot of the Acropolis - Das Licht Hellas , in which travel photographs from the 19th century were shown, and a treasury exhibition in the Zeughaus Museum under the title The Gold of the Steppe. Princely treasures beyond the Alexander Empire .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Big rush until the last minute ( Memento from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ "Minister of State Kühne-Hörmann hands over a Roman portrait bust", press release, September 11, 2009 ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )